Everything about Horace Pippin totally explained
Horace Pippin (
February 22,
1888 –
July 6,
1946) was a self-taught
African-American painter who worked in a
naive style. The injustice of
slavery and American
segregation figure prominently in many of his works.
Biography
He was born in
West Chester, Pennsylvania, and grew up in
Goshen, New York. There he attended segregated schools until he was 15, when he went to work to support his ailing mother. Pippin served in the 369th infantry in Europe during
World War I, where he lost the use of his right arm. He said of his combat experience:
I didn't care what or where I went at. I asked God to help me, and he did so. And that's the way I came through that terrible and Hellish place. For the whole entire battlfield was hell, so it was no place for any human being to be.
His activity as a painter didn't begin in earnest until 1930. One of his best-known paintings, his
Self-portrait of 1941, shows him seated in front of an easel, cradling his brush in his right hand (he used his left arm to guide his injured right arm when painting). His painting of
John Brown Going to his Hanging (1942) is in the collection of the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in
Philadelphia.
Among Pippin's works are many
genre paintings, such as the
Domino Players (1943), in the
Phillips Collection,
Washington D.C., and several versions of
Cabin in the Cotton. His portraits include a depiction of the
contralto Marian Anderson singing, painted in 1941. He also painted landscapes and religious subjects.
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